A Montreal man has been ordered to pay $8,000 to a panhandler after an email he wrote complaining about her presence outside a liquor store was deemed discriminatory by the province's human rights commission.~In the end, the commission ruled in the woman’s favour, calling the defendant's actions “highly reprehensible.“

It found that, through his email, the man had violated her rights and ordered him to pay the victim a total of $8,000 for moral and punitive damages.

Canada is pretty much the apex of PC rotten, after the UK. Still, the guy who wrote the email was a bit over the top, and none too bright to imagine anyone would agree with him. As they now say in the UK: "the truth is no defence". When any society reaches that stage, it's game-over.

I'm sure that a lot of leftists would defend her and say that the man deserve to be punished, but would they help her in real life? I don't think so. For them, it's the government responsability to take care of people like her. They would never give any money to them except a few dime to give themselve good conscience. They don't shelter beggars at their home. They surely put their parent in old people's home. But if someone want less government, he surely have no heart.

The 'guilty' party did not offend the panhandler. He expressed his view of something that he was offended by, to the liquor-store staff. The liquor-store staff decided to become offended on the panhandler's behalf, and reported the offensive email to the police. The police could do nothing in the absence of a victim. So they showed the email to the panhandler, and encouraged her to be offended, thus creating a victim. Now the police could pursue the victimizer. The newly-created victim set the price of being offended at $20,000. The courts lowered that to $8,000. This is modern utopia, courtesy of the left.

""This is the most extreme form of hate and discrimination that I have seen,” says Terri Duncan, with Children’s Autism Services in Edmonton."

Terri Duncan needs to get out more.

Hahaha, clearly, I guess she doesn't know about the 1960s here in America? What a dumbass.

That letter is a bit extreme, but can't you control your kid? Autistic or not? Just 'cause they're disabled doesn't mean they aren't people - tell them to shut up when need be.

Forget the 1960s; there are towns within an hour's drive from me where you can't walk into a bar if you're black or hispanic. Or if you're a flaming queer. You will almost definitely get the shit beat out of you. And actually having the shit beat out of you by mouthbreather rednecks is more distressing than getting called nasty names in a letter by mouthbreather rednecks.

But for people like Terri, the bark is always the worst part; the actual bite is unthinkable.